[PJUG Javamail] So Many Languages, So Little Time

[Joshua Marinacci]

Java would provide the best base for learning more in the future.
JavaScript would provide the most functionality in the short term with  
the least amount of knowledge.
Does it want to learn how to program or does he want to build some  
particular thing?

On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Richard Johnson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a friend who is a project manager.  He gets joys and  
> heartaches associated with seeing that computer games get built on  
> schedule, according to spec, and within budget.  He is not a  
> software guy in the same sense that we are but more of a people and  
> process person.  He has told me a couple of times recently that he  
> wants to learn to do some limited programming and/or scripting.   
> He's slowly teaching himself AppleScript now.
>
> What language should I recommend he learn, why would you recommend  
> it, and do you have a good source or pointer for tutorials since  
> he'll probably need to do it mostly on his own?  Perl, Ruby, Grails,  
> Java, C, Lisp, Scheme ... something else?
>
> --
> Richard Johnson
>
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